How the Old Masters painted animals: dragonfly wings and butterfly dust A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

A butterfly with damaged wings may struggle to fly efficiently, making it more vulnerable to predators and less successful at finding food or mates. The damage isn’t just cosmetic—it can significantly ...

Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory is open Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission, which can be purchased in the gift shop, costs $16 for adults, $14 for seniors and $10 for students or ...

You need entomologist’s forceps — sharp-pointed tweezers, really — to unfurl the wings without ripping them. Then insect pins and a spreading board on which to dry out the butterfly.

By MC Science Desk | March 21, 2025 How the Beautiful Butterfly Nebula Gets Its Mesmerising Wings? A stunning cosmic hourglass has formed from a double-star system’s birth.

But straight off the bat, his colleague Rod Eastwood makes a suggestion: it’s got to be connected with the Colin Wyatt Butterfly Heist of 1947. The Colin Wyatt Butterfly Heist is a bizarre and ...

Can structures that give butterfly winds their iridescent sheen be easily harnessed to improve cancer diagnosis? New research reported in Advanced Materials suggests that they can. When a biopsy, or ...

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Known for its shimmering blue wings, the Morpho butterfly owes its brilliance not to pigments but to microscopic structures that manipulate light. Now, researchers are harnessing those same structures ...

Using the microscopic structures found on the wings of the Morpho butterfly, researchers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to analyze cancer biopsy samples that could make cancer ...

You’ll find this small, yellow butterfly among the pages of Endemic Butterflies of Colombia. Found in the late 1800s in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria mountain range, this was the first specimen of ...